Be A Cat In ChatChat

Description: a multiplayer game about being a cat. Instructions: be a cat. This isn't a LunchTimeWaster as much as it's a LifeTimeWaster. This is ChatChat.

Created by Terry Cavanagh (the same developer behind VVVVVV), ChatChat is free to play over at Kongregate. The game seems to serve no purpose beyond being adorable, and I must admit that I found myself enjoying the interaction with other people in cat-form. It's a bizarre experience — a simple, quest-less, non-violent MMO where everyone is a cat. Huh.

No sunbeams to lounge in and do nothing in for most of the day? No items to try and get to and knock off their perch? No high places to climb and survey one's dominion? No eating grass and throwing up?!

Triple AAA games nailing the brief. Indie games surprising people out of nowhere, and expansions and patches that completely turn a game around. It's been a good year for games - now it's time for you to vote for your favourite.